Hotashi

I hate the new setup for Facebook. It sucks! Why did they even bother changing it? The previous layout was much simpler and user friendly. This one is more cluttered, disorganized and they have a lot of bugs to fix. I get more error pages than I properly loaded ones and the pages take longer to load on my account than other people’s for some reason (I tested it out with Jack’s). Seriously, it’s annoying!

My other rant is about the Medical Facility we have on campus. Well I had a doctor’s appointment a while ago about my medication and they gave me a call a week ago (at 8am!) wanting to schedule a follow-up appointment. Seriously, who calls a student at 8am? Fucktards. So I made an appointment (yesterday at 9:30) and I had to drive to Waterloo since I’ve moved home. So I left at 8am which should give me about an extra half hour. Well with morning traffic, getting stuck behind a slow moving truck on a one-lane road, and later being stuck in a traffic jam on the highway due to construction, I was cutting it close. So while I’m stuck in a traffic jam I call the office at 9:20 to let them know that I will be about 10 minutes late. Well they tell me that if I miss the appointment then they can’t do anything about it. I also had to pick up my medical files since I’m graduating so she told me I could just see the nurse for that without an appointment. Good since I would have been pissed that I drove all that way for nothing. So I get out of the traffic jam, park illegally on campus and run to the office only two minutes late and the receptionist tells me that I didn’t make my appointment. STUPID! So she tells me to take a seat and the nurse will see me shortly to give me my files. Ok, well the nurse comes, takes me to a room and leaves me there for five minutes before my doctor comes in for the follow-up. Umm…wtf? Apparently all they wanted to know was if my medication worked. It did. And that was the end of the check-up. Honestly, it did not even take two minutes. Useless twits! At least I got my files. =/

In other news, I have handed in my paper and I will be defending it next Tuesday. I hope it does well. I can either get a fail (doubt it), pass with major revisions, or a pass with minor revisions. I’m hoping for the minor revisions so that I can finish this paper and be done with it! I also have a list of people who want to read this paper. I’m a bit nervous about that. It’s one thing to have your paper read by other academics who are used to reading case studies, but those who aren’t trained to take things less personally sometimes overreact to observations that they see as normal but are being critiqued by an outsider. So…hopefully that goes over well. I can’t wait to graduate!

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Today I officially signed my moving out papers and gave in my keys. This marks the end of my five years living in Waterloo. Surprisingly I’m not that sad…a little sad but it wasn’t like last year when I finished undergrad. Maybe because this time I wasn’t saying goodbye to my very close roommates who over four years had become my sisters. This year I had stupid roommates so I wasn’t that upset to leave my apartment or say goodbye to them. It’s not that I hope I’ll never see them again; I just don’t care if I don’t. And on one last rant about the roommates, the emotionally needy one (roommate #2) left a bunch of her stuff behind for me to throw out before my inspection. Thankfully I cleaned up that shit and got my $120 back. Honestly though, she shouldn’t deserve her deposit money back. I wish I could get it as compensation for living with a socially awkward weirdo.

I’m a little sad to leave the city, but I’m also looking forward to eventually living in downtown Toronto with Jack. We won’t move in together until we’re married, but at least I have something to look forward to. In the meantime I’ll be living at home with my parents. *groan*

Goodbye Waterloo. I shall miss thee…ish.

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I just had a property manager come by my place to show the apartment to potential tenants. She is the same bitchy lady that processed out paperwork for when we moved in. I had the chain lock on my door and the first thing she told me when I opened the door was that I couldn’t have the chain lock on in case there is a fire. WTF. The chain lock was there when I moved in. Hence, it was already installed (probably by the landlords) and yet it is my fault for using it? WTF! She’s really bitchy about everything. She didn’t even give me my 24 hour warning before she came and didn’t even apologize for barging in on me. Her attitude demeans others and she acts so high and mighty. I wrote an official complaint to the property managering office. I hope they fire her.

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Jack and I had bought beerfest tickets a few months back and we were really looking forward to going. My sister and her friends had gotten tickets for the Friday and we got tickets for the Saturday. Well it was this past weekend and it was not as great as I was expecting. It was at the Historic Fort York, which is overlooked by the Gardner Expressway. The weather wasn’t so bad on Friday but Saturday was horrible and Jack and didn’t end up going. I did go on the Friday with my sister and her friends since she couldn’t fill one ticket. Here is my pro/con list. (I’ve been watching too much Gilmore Girls)

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I think I mentioned previously that I’ve moved back to Waterloo until the end of August to work on my research. Well here I am living in my three-bedroom student apartment all alone. Ok that’s a lie - my hamster is with me too…and two house plants. But I’m pretty much alone since Tokki sleeps for the majority of my awake time and the plants are just plants. Jack came up this weekend and we hung out for a few days (long weekend) but other than that the place has been empty.

For the time I have been alone it has been weird getting into a pattern of living alone. Having people live with you definitely shapes your habits. For instance, when my two stupid roommates lived here with me I would try avoid going outside my room when I knew they were out there. Why? Because if I wasn’t asked really stupid questions I would get sucked into a socially awkward, brainless and/or ridiculously boring conversation. And then there is also the issues with rotting food. Personally, I like to avoid that.

Now that I’m here alone I’ve been wondering how to conduct myself. For instance, is it still inappropriate to not close the door when you’re on the can? Nobody is there so is it a big deal? Should I let my dishes pile up until I feel like washing them since I won’t be inconveniencing anyone? Can I take up all the room in the fridge without seeming like a hog? I know some of the answers might seem straight forward but since I’ve always had to share my space with other people, I have never had to question when such social norms are null. Null or nullified? Anyway, it’s weird. I took a piss with the door open…it felt so wrong.

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